Samson Occom, journal, 1777 September 13-26
Author
Occom, Samson
Date13-26 September 1777
ms number777513
abstractOccom records his travels as an itinerant preacher in Connecticut,
Rhode Island, and Massachusetts.
handwritingOccom's handwriting is mostly clear and legible.
paperTwo small sheets folded into a booklet are in fair condition,
with moderate staining and wear.
inkBrown ink is faded.
noteworthyOn two recto, in the entry for Monday the 22nd, "Asphos"
refers to Samuel and Robert Aspho. If Occom's intention regarding a
person or place name is uncertain, it has been left untagged. An editor,
likely
19th-century, has added several notes and overwritten large portions of the
text.
These edits have not been transcribed.
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[illegible][guess: 15:]
Monday
went a little way east
and preached, after meeting
went on eastward, arrived to
Scituate, put up at one
Mr. Samuel Angell's a Preacher.
Presently after I got there a
number of People Came together
and I gave them a
word of exhortation
16: Tuesday
had another meeting
19: Friday
went to Johnson
Mr.
Samuel Angel went with me, preached
in the meeting house, in the evening
preached again, in a private
house
lodged at
Esq. Balknap's my
old Friend, —
23 Tuesday
went to meeting at the
place heard one
Mr. Willis a Baptist
preacher, after he had Spoke I
gave a word of Exhortation, and
then went home with
Mr.
Hoskins and Tarried there all Day, and
in the Evening had a
meeting
at the Same house, Lodged
there again —
24: Wednesday
went off early in
the morning and stopped
Mr. Deans and a meeting there, in the after
noon
went into Town and had another
meeting there in the
house, about
sunset
took Tea with
Mrs.
McWater
lodged where
Mr. Jones Boarded, a Young Preacher, —
25 Thursday
got up very early
and went on towards
Freetown Stop at
Mr. Tobe's in
Bartly
and
took breakfast there, Soon after
went on, arrived to
Freetown about 11: called on
Mr. Walcut a Young Preacher was there
a Little while and went
on a
gain
Mr. Walcut went with me
to the Indian Place got there
sometime before sunset I
lodged at
Daniel wards the
principle
Indian in the Place
26
Friday
about 10 in the Morn had a meeting and there was a